When designing and implementing new knowledge management system or knowledge sharing system, how to test the performance or the effectiveness of the new system?
The Knowledge Management Systems, KMS is implemented, whichever type it is, measuring the success of a Knowledge Management of methods including surveys, case studies, Delphi techniques and intellectual and social capital and staff expertise methods..
it is very important to measure KMS success against its goal. Depending on the driver of KMS implementation (eg. achieving innovation, effectiveness/efficiency or knowledge preservation) success/performance outcome measures should be different.
Actually what we found very effective at Cisco is using the APQC ( https://www.apqc.org/ ) KM Capability Assessment. " a rigorous way to measure and evaluate your organization’s knowledge management (KM) competencies across four categories: strategy, people, process, and content and information technology. Based on APQC’s Levels of Knowledge Management MaturitySM, the KM CAT lets you measure every aspect of your KM program, from strategy and business case development to specific processes and technologies, and identify how you stack up against the competition. " Hope this helps.